Our Fragile Moment - How lessons from Earth's past can help us survive the climate crisis by Michael Mann
40.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs
In this sweeping work of science and history, the renowned climate scientist and author of The New Climate War shows us the conditions on Earth that allowed humans not only to exist but thrive, and how they are imperilled if we veer off course. For the vast majority of its 4.54 billion years, Earth has ...Show more
The Handover by David Runciman
38.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs
Does it matter if we are ceding power to AI? Especially if we have been there before. 'The Singularity' is what Silicon Valley calls the idea that, eventually, we will be overrun by machines that are able to take decisions and act for themselves. What no one says is that it happened before. A few hundr ...Show more
Consent Laid Bare: Sex, Entitlement & the Distortion of Desire by Chanel Contos
40.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs
A battle cry from a generation no longer willing to stay silent, this book is a must for women, and men, navigating desire in the age of entitlement. You are a fourteen-year-old girl at a party. You are drunk. All your friends are drunk. A boy is pressuring you to have sex. You don't really want to, but ...Show more
Regenesis: How to Feed the World Without Devouring the Planet by George Monbiot
30.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs
Winner of the 2022 Orwell Prize for Journalism / A Sunday Times (London) Bestseller / Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize for Writing on Conservation "George Monbiot is one of the most fearless and important voices in the global climate movement today." --Greta Thunberg For the first time in millen ...Show more
Water Always Wins: Thriving in an Age of Drought and Deluge by Erica Gies
28.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs
A journey through time and around the world to uncover water's true nature, and how it can help us adapt to climate change.Trouble with water increasingly frequent, extreme floods and droughts is one of the first obvious signs of climate change. Meanwhile, urban sprawl, industrial agriculture and engine ...Show more
Going Mainstream: How extremists are taking over by Julia Ebner
40.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs
The internationally bestselling author of Going Dark: the secret social lives of extremists (A Telegraph Book of the Year) returns to explore why radical ideas are increasingly infiltrating politics, popular culture and our everyday lives. Incels. Anti Vaxxers. Conspiracy theorists. Neo-Nazis. Once, th ...Show more
Butler to the World: How Britain became the servant of tycoons, tax dodgers, kleptocrats and criminals by Oliver Bullough
25.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, NOW WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION ON BRITAIN’S RESPONSE TO THE UKRAINE CRISIS ‘Shockingly timely’ Mail on Sunday ‘A savage analysis of Britain’s soul. As essential as Orwell at his best’ Peter Pomerantsev ‘Horribly brilliant’ James O'Brien How did Britain become the servant of the ...Show more
Should All Drugs Be Legalized?: A primer for the 21st century by Mattha Busby
30.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: Big Idea Ser.
A timely re-examination of the pros and cons of legalizing drug use. Combining a unique visual approach with carefully constructed narrative text, this book provides a survey of the history of drug use, a review of the impact of the war on drugs, an appraisal of the effects of legal vs illegal drugs an ...Show more
Kingdom of Lies - Adventures in Cybercrime by Kate Fazzini
25.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs
Would you say your phone is safe, or your computer? What about your car? Or your bank? There is a global war going on and the next target could be anyone - an international corporation or a randomly selected individual. From cybercrime villages in Romania to intellectual property theft campaigns in Chin ...Show more
Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs by Johann Hari
37.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs
"NEW YORK TIMES "BESTSELLERIt is now one hundred years since drugs were first banned in the United States. On the eve of this centenary, journalist Johann Hari set off on an epic three-year, thirty-thousand-mile journey into the war on drugs. What he found is that more and more people all over the world ...Show more
The Final Choice: End of Life Suffering: Is Assisted Dying the Answer? by Caralise Trayes
12.00 NZD
30.00 (60% off)
Category: Current Affairs
BE INFORMED FOR YOUR VOTE AT THE REFERENDUM On 17 October 2020 A Kiwi journalist on the hunt for the truth about assisted dying and the End of Life Choice Act. Join her on a journey of discovery as she tells the stories of those with terminal illness and interviews lawyers, doctors, ethicists and cleric ...Show more
Red Notice: A True Story of Corruption, Murder and how I became Putin's no. 1 enemy by Bill Browder
26.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs
I have to assume that there is a very real chance that Putin or members of his regime will have me killed some day. If I'm killed, you will know who did it. When my enemies read this book, they will know that you know. In November 2009, the young lawyer Sergei Magnitsky was beaten to death by eight poli ...Show more